We just bought a new house in Sept. On Oct 17, I was alone for the night when about 12:15 am I heard steps coming up the front entrance. I wasn't expecting the wife back until about 2:00am, so I though this was a bit strange. Also, the dog was barking. Dog's have a certain tone in their bark when they are hostile..and this was a definite hostile bark. At that point, I was very awake, and starting to get alarmed.
I then heard the deadbolt unlock, the doorknob rattle, and the magnetic gasket on the door break it's seal as the door opend. Now, I'm very awake, and thinking it is the wife...but the dog has gone ballistic and is in a full blown rage. He's 85 lb Malamute/Sheppard and looks like a wolf. ANYONE entering a house and night with that reception is up to no good.
The footsteps continue, once on wood outside, then on the tile entry, then muffled comming up the carpeted steps into the living room.
I'm up and flying by this point. I grab the 10mm, roll out of bed and chamber a round at the same time. Dog is still in a frenzy. All I can think of as I'm walking down the hall is that this is real, and this will be to the death. Once I get half way down the hall, the dog goes silent. I find him in the living room munching a milkbone, we have them in the pantry, don't think we left the pantry open that night..although that is possible. The front door is closed and locked, I check all of the rooms, doors, windows. Everything is closed and locked. The strangest part about it, is that I was able to go back to bed and go to sleep.
When the wifey got home, I told her "Hey Hun, we've got a ghost". She just rolled her eyes.
So, then in December, I was out walking the dog. Beautiful night, just incredibly still and silent. The dog and I get about half way around my usually route and I get a weird feeling. So we head back. My wife greats me at the door and urging me to get inside. She was so shaken, it took her a couple of minutes to settle back down and tell me what was wrong...other than "It was here".
Apparently she had heard two footsteps on the front porch, like someone had skipped the steps and simply landed. The porch is 6ft above ground level (the house is a split level). She thought it was me until she got a chill, and what she described a "wrong" feeling. She then heard two hard impacts on the wall of the house next to the door. She spun around just in time to see the porch light dim as a shadow slowly moved off the the side of the porch (again, 6 feet off the ground, and through a guard rail).
My sister urged us to tell our pastor about it. His explanation is that there are no ghosts, and that hauntings are real, but demonic. That made me feel real comfy. In short, we declared the property under the name of Christ. We haven't noticed anything obviously strange since then.
Psalm 91 is your friend.
What a story! We have lived in this house over 20 years & except for hearing distant music sometimes at night, we have had nothing happen.
A house where we lived years ago I heard children laughing several times, my dogs heard them too. Also in that house things would show up on the floor. Letters & objects that had been put away for ages would just be laying right in the middle of the room. I didn't think about that being ghostly activity like I did the laughter, but it might have been connected.
I will remember Psalm 93.
It's a funny thing about dogs. It seems that the ones closely related to the wolf are a bit more attuned to the supernatural.
Some friends of mine had a samoya. It was the most mellow thing ever, until a particular woman would visit their store. Then, the dog would go bonkers. Stranger yet is that it was not reacting to the woman, but rather to something that accompanied her.
Once and only once they visited her home and discovered then that she was fully immersed in witchcraft. She acknowledged that a demon was her companion and went with her everywhere.
I have plenty of secondhand witch stories from another friend who unwittingly became acquainted with a witch when his family moved to West Virginia. Stories that would make your skin crawl. That stuff is as real and dangerous as nitroglycerin.